Hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law November 18, 2010 Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify before you today regarding the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). …
Revised and updated October 23, 2012. Washington’s reckless spending spree of the past several years and unwillingness to confront the mountains of debt coming soon from unreformed federal entitlement programs threaten the economic and social future of the generation currently between the ages of 5 and 30. The 115 million Americans in this Debt-Paying…
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